Lisa, that's really well said, thank you! I'm getting the feeling for
it now. My FS & AI & WC experiences did not have a "newsroom"
component, so I'm in learning mode about this part. In the other
processes, the notes were on newsprints or table covers or worksheets,
which got typed up after the event was over, and then sent out or
posted online. Leaving with the record is something I've never
experienced.
Diane
On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:
Hello, Diane -
If I am not mistaken you are asking how one recruits someone to be the
Newsroom Coordinator?
As others have mentioned - for me, there is always a core team - me
and the
sponsor/host/client team. And on that team there is usually - if we
decide
to have an electronic newsroom - someone who will be the Newsroom
Coordinator.
I am in the room to help as well, but I find that having a Newsroom
Coordinator really helps as one person focuses on gathering, tracking,
printing (if a printer is available) and compiling transcribed notes
for the
Book of Proceedings.
And I find that this is a role of pride, as it is a very important
role, and
the folks I have worked with as Newsroom Coordinators always have great
ideas for how to create user-friendly instructions and wonderful
supportive
energy for the participants.
In addition, it is a role that someone on the client/sponsor/host side
can
take if they want to observe and support the Open Space but not
participate
(because the issue is not their own but they believe in the process
and the
people, for example).
It is not to me a matter of being technically inclined (because a
Newsroom
can be created with super-high-tech or simply be a place for
hand-written
papers to be placed in a basket, and everything in between). It is,
however, a matter for someone who is incredibly detail-oriented while
at the
same time welcoming of folks who find the technology new to them.
Sometimes someone I know who has not done a lot of Open Space events
wishes
to observe and support an OS - and I just ask the client if they can
come
along. It is always welcome.
In an Open Space that some colleagues are doing this month in San
Antonio,
Texas, they have put out the word for any folks who want to be
volunteer
scribes, and those scribes will be using flip charts at each
discussion area
to document the conversations. I myself have volunteered at another
facilitator's event just to learn from them.
In one particularly important community event, participants were quite
moved
to find that the folks charting the conversations at the different
discussion areas were volunteering their time in support of the people
and
their work together...
Lisa
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O p e n i n g S p a c e
Berkeley, California, USA
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